Allow me to say that being Chinese-educated doesn't make me less patriotic than any other Malaysian educated in national schools. I am proud of being a Malaysian, and I will defend Malaysian interests at any cost, against anyone, including the People's Republic of China if it tries to takeover our share of Spratly's Islands.

The education system in Chinese independent schools (which, together with thousands of national-type Chinese primary schools, are represented by Dong Jiao Zong) is not China-based. Many of the schools don't even encourage students to take the UEC exam sanctioned by Dong Jiao Zong.

The Dong Jiao Zong curriculum is not very different from what is learnt in government secondary schools, only the language is different. The textbooks are written according to the curriculum issued by Malaysian government, not China. We use the same textbooks for Bahasa Malaysia published by Dewan Bahasa Pustaka.

When I was in secondary schools, sometimes I was offended by people who asked whether we learn BM or not in Chinese independent schools. For your knowledge, we Chinese-educated people do not live in a different world.

We are not asking our language to become the official language, we just want the right to learn in our own language.

I think most Chinese will not oppose Vision School project if enough black-and-white guarantees are given. We don't want just blur oral guarantees from MCA or Gerakan (by the way, how can we trust MCA and Gerakan's promises, since we had been fooled by them so many times). We want guarantees written in law. We are not against integration if our identities can be kept.

The bottom line is, teaching a children how to be a Malaysian in Chinese or Tamil doesn't make him or her "unMalaysian"!

By the way, for everyone's information, Suqiu means rayuan in Malay, not tuntutan .